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New evidence on mobile phone hazard

Written by Tudor Vlad on Sunday, 30 of March, 2008 at 13:13

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According to The Independent, a recent study led by a renowned neurosurgeon, Dr. Vini Khurana, strongly demonstrates that prolonged exposure to mobile phone radiation will result in brain cancer and neighboring tissue damage:

It draws on growing evidence – exclusively reported in the IoS in October – that using handsets for 10 years or more can double the risk of brain cancer. Cancers take at least a decade to develop, invalidating official safety assurances based on earlier studies which included few, if any, people who had used the phones for that long. […]

“It is anticipated that this danger has far broader public health ramifications than asbestos and smoking,” says Professor Khurana, who told the IoS his assessment is partly based on the fact that three billion people now use the phones worldwide, three times as many as smoke. […]

After a quick search on the web, I managed to find the study on the Brain Surgery Research site . The key facts are:

  • Mobile phones are convenient and frequently invaluable, yet exposure to their electromagnetic radiation is invisible. Therefore, any danger this exposure poses may be easily dismissed.
  • Exposure is long-term and its effects on the body, particularly its electrical organ, the brain, are compounded by numerous other simultaneous long-term exposures including continuous waves from radio and TV transmitter towers, cordless phone base stations, power lines, and wireless/WiFi computing devices.
  • A malignant brain tumour represents a life-ending diagnosis in the vast majority of those diagnosed. There is a significant and increasing body of evidence, to date at least 8 comprehensive clinical studies internationally and one long-term meta-analysis, for a link between mobile phone usage and certain brain tumours. […]
  • The “incubation time” or “latency” (i.e., the time from commencement of regular mobile phone usage to the diagnosis of a malignant solid brain tumour in a susceptible individual) may be in the order of 10-20 years. In the years 2008-2012, we will have reached the appropriate length of follow-up time to begin to definitively observe the impact of this global technology on brain tumour incidence rates. […]
  • It is anticipated that this danger has far broader public health ramifications than asbestos and smoking, and directly concerns all of us, particularly the younger generation, including very young children

You can read the entire study here [PDF] and related data following the links below:

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Made Monday, 31 of March , 2008 at 9:46

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Comment by Tudor Turcu

Made Friday, 4 of April , 2008 at 20:29

Interesting article - anyway, on this subject the opinions does not converge between specialists and there isn’t any general accepted evidence that normal use of mobile phones affect health in any way (see http://www.who.int/features/qa/30/en/ or http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/23/1707)

Comment by Tudor Vlad

Made Sunday, 6 of April , 2008 at 16:03

Yes, that’s true! There in no accepted evidence against the mobile technology (mobile phones or transmission antennas).
But this does not mean we are safe. As pointed in the links you provided, the World Health Organization is actively studying this problem, as “fields emitted by mobile phones is generally more than a 1000 times higher than from base stations”.
In the study I mentioned, the author explains:

The “incubation time” or “latency” (i.e., the time from commencement of regular
mobile phone usage to the diagnosis of a malignant solid brain tumour in a
susceptible individual) may be in the order of 10-20 years. In the years 2008-
2012, we will have reached the appropriate length of follow-up time to begin to
definitively observe the impact of this global technology on brain tumour
incidence rates

I know the study may be eroneous, but it does raise a large question mark. So until I will see a study that clearly dismisses the mobile technology danger, I guess it’s safer to be cautios.

Comment by Smith

Made Tuesday, 9 of September , 2008 at 12:45

Thanks for such an informative post about cancer.I need this info because my friends mother is suffering from Brain Cancer, information mention in this article will greatly help me in offering her some advice.

Comment by Biopro

Made Wednesday, 27 of May , 2009 at 14:02

Great article. Dr. Vini Khurana was recently interviewed in a 60 Minutes (Australia) segment that focused on the cell phone radiation issue. Dr.Khurana expressed his opinion that the doubling of risk of brain cancer for long term cell phone users (10 years or more) is actually a conservative estimate. Click here to watch the 60 Minutes video.
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